NO SHOES? WE LOVE YOU!
It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.
It was surprisingly crowded, a bunch of middle-aged people, mostly women, moving enthusiastically, if a bit awkwardly, to Prince’s Little Red Corvette, trying to find a way back to their younger, more...
Except for a small strip of shin that poked out from between the top of his socks and the bottom of his pants, his legs were purely theoretical.
Him reverse cowgirl-style,
A girl from his English class who’d overdosed on sleeping pills after learning of the disappearance of her identical twin.
I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven.
Just a dark shape against an even darker background.
And a smile with a missing tooth. I was an adorable
To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of...
She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of...
I was supposed to have a son.
The big day hadn’t gone the way she’d hoped, not that big days ever did. Birthdays,
When your words are futile, you’re better off keeping them to yourself,
What a beautiful bird, they kept telling one another, which was a weird thing to say about a dead thing without a head.
We don’t smoke for enjoyment. We smoke to proclaim our faith.
The thing was to wear a bathing suit and look good in it, to somehow make yourself worthy of the scenario you were volunteering for.
As a straight, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical, first-world, middle-class white woman, she struggled to maintain a constant awareness of her privilege, and to avoid using it to silence or ignore...
An empty desk in the second row, a memorial to the girl who used to sit there.
Taylor Swift wasn’t actually one of them—she was just pretending, the same way Jesus had pretended to be a man. That was why she stood in front of the line, ahead of the others rather than among them....